Tuesday, September 30, 2008

A good librarian will celebrate freedom of information and the diversity of ideas by celebrating Banned Books Week at the library. The best way to do this is to round up all the really nasty books in your library and lock them all up in a glass display case.

13 comments:

Damn. You must have visited my library without me knowing. That is exactly what we do because heaven forbid we actually invest in books that may be attractive enough to check out. Displays have been a bane I have been writing about in my journal for a while. And here I thought it was just me.

We have a wonderful display. And not behind glass. However, we have had patrons challenge the books on display already. I hope the library takes them up on it because then the challengers would have to actually 'read' the book they challenged. BWahahahah!

When I did a banned book display way back when, I set up a black bookcase in the display case, put black vertical stripes down the front, and got permission to leave the glass case open. People seemed to like liberating the books from the jail cell.

Got to love the face of the indignant patron who needs to document the reason why a particular book should be banned from the library in a library form. Ours is about 4 pages long and ensures that nothing is ever re-considered because no one bothers to fill out that form.

haha, the old 'drown them in bureaucratic paperwork' trick! worse still you actually make them read what they are challenging and form a coherent argument about why no-one else should be able to access it! Hahahahaha! Genius! When all else fails, bore them to death with committee discussions :)